Mumbai records 1,037 Covid-19 cases, doubling rate at 345 days

Mumbai recorded new Covid19 cases close to the 1000 mark for the second consecutive day on Tuesday and a Test Positivity Rate TPR below 5 per cent According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporationrsquos BMC report the city saw 1037 new cases with a TPR of 494 and 37 deathsAfter recording a jump in the TPR and new cases on May 23 Mumbai is seeing a significant drop in bothAfter recording a below five per cent TPR last week on May 23 the cityrsquos TPR was 613 per centThe city reported the highest number of cases mdash 11163 on April 4 after which the declining trend started There has been a steady fall in the TPR since May 5 when it was 1096 per cent Last week the TPR was below seven per centMay 20 was the first time in the second wave that the TPR went below five per cent On May 21 the TPR was 428 per centAlso Read Institutional quarantine mandatory in red districts Maharashtra govtOn the other hand on May 18 the city for the first time in the second wave registered less than 1000 new Covid19 cases However there was a significant rise in daily new cases and fatalities later in the weekThe doubling rate has continued to significantly improve and is now at 345 daysOf the 37 deaths in Mumbai 20 patients had comorbidities 23 patients were in the age group of 60 above while 11 deaths were of patients in the 4060 age groupThe cityrsquos recovery rate has improved and was 94 per cent on Tuesday and 1427 people recovered and got dischargedMaharashtra saw a significant rise in new cases and Covid19 fatalities on Tuesday As per the state report 24136 new cases were reported along with 601 deathsThe statersquos fatality rate has been seeing a steady rise and on Tuesday it was 161 per cent while 36176 recovered and got dischargedCurrently the state has 314 lakh active cases The Mumbai Metropolitan Region MMR too reported a rise in new cases and fatalities The MMR reported 2832 cases including the ones reported in Mumbai Apart from Mumbai Palghar with 321 and Raigad with 544 reported the maximum new cases in MMRThane had 137 new cases while KalyanDombivili reported 104 new cases and Navi Mumbai reported 116 new casesMMR excluding Mumbai registered 63 deaths out of which Raigad reported 28 and Thane witnessed 11 deaths the highest after Mumbai KalyanDombivili reported seven and Palghar and VasaiVirar reported five deaths each5626155Total no of cases in Maharashtra1803Total no of cases reported in MMR in the last 24 hours37No of deaths in city on Tuesday 20 patients had comorbidities 23 patients were aged above 60 years 11 deaths were of patients in the 4060 years age group1427Patients recovered and discharged in city on Tuesday2276030Total no of people administered the first vaccine dose738713No of people who have taken second vaccine dose so far31305No of people who took their first vaccine dose on Tuesday2960No of people who took their second vaccine dose on Tuesday24136No of new cases recorded in the state on Tue